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In the Name of Allah,
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Table of
Contents
A Brief Biography of the Author 6
Author’s Introduction 8
Iman And Righteous Deeds 10
Occupying oneself with some
activity or useful knowledge 19
Remembering Allah Much 24
Forgetting the unpleasant
things that have passed 28
Imagining worst situations 32
Firmness of the heart and reliance on ALLAH 35
Repelling evil with good 39
Do not let grief and worry
make your short life shorter 43
A Brief Biography
of the Author
The author of the brief and important treatise is the
eminent scholar Shaikh Abdurrahman bin Nasir
bin Abdullah Aal Si’idi. He was born on the 12th
of Muharram 1307 A.H. in the town of ‘Unaizah in the
province of Qassim, in the Najd area of the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia. He lost both his parents when he was
a child. His mother died when he was four years old,
and his father when he was seven years old.
He started his studies by memorizing the Qur’an,
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then engaged himself in seeking different branches
of knowledge from the scholars of his city, and those
who came to it as visitors. He was very diligent and
hardworking in seeking knowledge, and by the age of
twenty-three he was already teaching at the same time
as he was studying.
Among his famous teachers were: Shaikh Ibrahim
bin Hamad bin Jasir, Shaikh Muhammad bin Abdul
Karim Al-Shibl, Shaikh Muhammad Amin Al-Shinqitee,
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the famous scholar of Tafseer, Shaikh Saleh bin Uthman,
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of Principles of Fiqh, Tawheed, Tafseer and Arabic
Language, and he stayed with him till he died.
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Faqh and its principles, and Tawheed and its branches.
He was widely read in the various works of Shaikhul
Islam Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Al-Qayyim. He was also
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and he wrote a Tafseer of the Qur’an in eight volumes,
which he later summarized in a single volume. Among
his other works are several books on Fiqh, commentaries
on hadiths, small treatises on fundamental rules
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of his legal opinions (fatawa), and a collection of his
sermons in three volumes.
He was quite famous for his noble manners; very
humble to both the elderly and the young. He was
indifferent to this world and its glory, not caring for
rank, power or glory.
He died on the night of Thrusday, the 23rd of Jumada
At-Thaniyah 1376 A.H. in his hometown of ‘Unaizah.
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of his books and his knowledge. Amin
Bashir Aliyu Umar
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Author’s
Introduction
Praise belongs to Allah, to whom all praise
is due. I bear witness that there is no deity
worthy of worship except Allah, and I
bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and
Messenger. May the peace and blessings of Allah
be upon him, his family and his companions.
There is no doubt that the bliss of the heart,
its tranquility and happiness, and the absence
of grief and worry from it, is the goal of every
individual. It is the means by which a happy,
blissful and excellent life is achieved. There are
means to achieve this; some of which are religious,
some are natural and some are physical. These
means are never gathered together except to the
believers. The non-believers on the other hand,
despite the fact that the earnest endeavors of
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their philosophers is to lead them to these means,
even if they achieve them in certain aspects, they
miss the way to them in several other aspects that
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in yielding results.
I will mention in this treatise of mine the
ways and means to achieve this lofty goal that
is the quest of every individual. Some people
are successful in following these ways, and
therefore live a good and pure life and enjoy
their life. Some woefully fail in following any
of them, and they live a wretched and miserable
life. Others lie between these two extremes; by
the level of their following these means, by that
level do they live a good life. And it is Allah that
guides to all that is good, and wards off all that
is evil, and it is His help we seek in this.
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